1846—
Lives of the Great Composers
“Lives of the Great Composers”mentioned
“That part of the public, which in all ages, walks in clogs on the green-sward, and prefers a candle to the sun, which accused Socrates of impiety, denounced the Tartuffe of Moliere as irreligious, which furnishes largely the Oxford press in England, and rings its little alarm bell among ourselves at every profound and universal statement of religious experience, was exceedingly distressed, that Handel should profane the details of biblical history by wedding them to his God-given harmonies.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p242
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p242; page given is to the 1869 reprint.